How to say “investigation” in 33 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- investigación/imbestiɡaˈθjon/ Spanish
- расследование[rɐs⁽ʲ⁾ːˈlʲedəvənʲɪje] Russian
- 조사[t͡ɕo̞sʰa̠] Korean
- חקירה/χakiˈʁa/ Hebrew
- তদন্ত/t̪ɔd̪ont̪o/ Bengali
- விசாரணை/ʋɪtʃɑːɾɐɳɐɪ̯/ Tamil
“investigation” in Spanish: investigación · Italian: indagine · Portuguese: investigação · Korean: 조사 · Russian: расследование · Turkish: soruşturma
It is commonest in Tamil, where விசாரணை is the 370th most used word.
Investigation in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian hetim/hɛtim/ investigation, inquiry, probe #1,909
- Bengali তদন্ত/t̪ɔd̪ont̪o/ investigation, enquiry, probe #657
- Bosnian istraga/îstraɡa/ inquiry, investigation #2,246
- Bulgarian разследване[rɐsˈslɛdvɐnɛ] investigation, inquiry, examination #1,437
- Catalan investigació[im.bəs.ti.ɣə.siˈo] #901
- Croatian istraga/îstraɡa/ inquiry, investigation #1,973
- Czech vyšetřování[ˈvɪʃɛtr̝̊ovaːɲiː] #1,153
- Danish undersøgelse/ˈɔnɐˌsøːˀəlsə/ examination, investigation, test #2,485
- Dutch controle/ˌkɔnˈtrɔːlə/ checkup, investigation #688
- French enquête/ɑ̃.kɛt/ inquest, investigation, examination #927
- Galician investigación/imbestiɡaˈθjoŋ/ #1,194
- German untersuchung/ʊntɐˈzuːxʊŋ/ examination, investigation #2,246
- Hebrew חקירה/χakiˈʁa/ An investigation, an inquiry: a methodical… #1,287
- Hindi परीक्षण/pə.ɾiːk.ʂəɳ/ examination, investigation #963
- Indonesian penyelidikan[pəɲəliˈdɪkan] #1,511
- Italian indagine/inˈda.d͡ʒi.ne/ investigation, inquiry, probe, enquiry #1,765
- Korean 조사[t͡ɕo̞sʰa̠] investigation; examination #1,082
- Macedonian истрага[ˈistraɡa] inquiry, investigation #1,349
- Malay siasat/ˈsiasat/ investigative inquiry; investigation #1,037
- Norwegian etterforskningen/ˈɛtərˌfɔʂknɪŋən/ #2,360
- Persian تحقیق[t̪ʰæɦ.ɢíːɢ̥] #1,999
- Polish śledztwo/ˈɕlɛt͡s.tfɔ/ #2,168
- Portuguese investigação/ĩ.ves.t͡ʃi.ɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/ #1,118
- Russian расследование[rɐs⁽ʲ⁾ːˈlʲedəvənʲɪje] #1,657
- Serbian istraga/îstraɡa/ inquiry, investigation #2,234
- Spanish investigación/imbestiɡaˈθjon/ #911
- Swedish utredningen/ˈʉtreːdˌnɪŋɛn/ an investigation #2,217
- Tagalog imbestigasyon/ʔimˌbestiɡasˈjon/ #2,114
- Tamil விசாரணை/ʋɪtʃɑːɾɐɳɐɪ̯/ investigation, inquiry #370
- Telugu విచారణ/ˈʋicaːˌraɳa/ investigation, examination, inquiry, search,… #446
- Turkish soruşturma/so.ɾuʃ.tuɾˈma/ verbal noun of soruşturmak; investigation #1,842
- Ukrainian дослідження[dosʲˈlʲid͡ʒenʲːɐ] investigation, research, study, inquiry #1,970
- Urdu تحقیق/t̪əɦ.qiːq/ research, investigation #1,121
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0).
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